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Well im on my 3rd day in paris and so far everything has been good. other than the first 4 hrs of being here the weather as been AMAZING! clear skies and sunny, lets just hope it stays like that. lets see on saturday i just walked around the city trying to get a feel for where things are. at night i walked along the seine (river) to the eiffel tower. every hour at night the tower would sparkle with light. just absolutely beautiful. i got some pretty good shots. yesterday i woke up at 830 to get to louvre since it opened at 9, i didnt want to wait in line or be in the museum when there were a lot of tourists, just searching for the mona lisa. but in the louvre there are 3 different pavilions, richelieu, sully and denon. i started in the richelieu this mainly had roman and greek statues. nice but i saw a lot of statues when i went to the british museum, i then walked into pavilion sully, where Venus de milo was. now there was a statue of her in the british museum but she was crouching, this time she was standing and "posing". just beautiful from every angle. obviously this is where the museum began to get crowded so it kidna sucked having to walk through people to get to her. after that i walked down napoleans hall. the artwork on the wall and ceilings are breath-taking. someones neck probably needed a message after that. i then proceeded to the "painting gallery" of the louvre. many interpretations of christs birth, crucification and resurrection, also a lot with the virgin mary. there were 100's of paintings, but my favorite one was the wedding at cana. the size of the painting nearly took up an entire wall. i bought headphones so i had an explanation and interpretation of it. then across the room was the ever so important the mona lisa. important it was, so important there was a huge glass frame around the painting, made it seem very small. i wanted to pass most of the italian and spanish paintings because i knew i would see plenty of them when i got to italy and spain so i went into the french paitnings....mostly of the french revolution. the museum was coming to an end and the last peice i saw was a statue of psyche revived by cupids kiss, very beautiful. i could have stayed all day in the museum but i thought 3 hrs were enough and by that time it was getting crowded. i then walked down the champs elysees to the arc de triomphe. very long walk, but worth it. after that i kinda just puttered around the city taking random pictures of everything. i went back to the hostel and met a girl named emilie. she is from denmark and is in paris for a job interview. she speaks english, danish and french. fluent in all 3, so it was nice having someone to walk with who spoke french. we went for a nights walk and we ended up at the sacre coure in montmarte. this is a very beautiful white church on top of a hill, and at night is gorgeous, i didnt have my camera at the time so i am going back tomorrow night.
today i went notre dame cathedral. there was a funeral going on so i thought it was rude to walk around while people were saying their goodbyes so i stayed in the back of the cathedral till it was over. a catholic funeral is a very prolong but beautiful process. i keep saying the world beautiful, but thats really how you have to describe the sites of this city. anywho after the funeral i walked around the church, and the statues and stainless glass were like nothing i have seen before. there were many people taking pics but i think its wrong to take pictures inside of a church, its a santuary not a souviner. anyways enough of the preaching. i walked around outside into the gardens and along the seine. there were many artists out. i think im going to go back on thursday and buy a picture from them. the rest of the day is not yet planned i think i am going to go find a park and just rest, i have been walking for miles the past 3 days. but tonight i am going up the eiffel tower to get pics. there will be a 3 hr wait but i think its worth it.
i havent had much french food except a "chocolat crepe avec banane". other than that just having fruit and pain (bread), trying to save the money i have. hope everyone had a good easter, thanks again to people who write back, makes me miss home even more. hope all is well.

Kel

p.s. i cant attach photos because i am at an internet cafe and the computers here dont allow that. so ur gonna have to wait till i get home :)